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The ESPC has released its annual analysis of the federal government’s 2015 budget.
Highlights from this Fact Sheet include:
- budget is sort on detail and long on spin
- few changes to Child Tax Benefits/National Child Benefit
- Few benefit from Family Tax Cut
- Universal Child Care Benefit increased
- Children’s Tax Fitness Credit doubled
- Tax-Free Saving Account maximum doubled
- EI compassionate care leave lengthened
- CMHC coop housing mortgages replaced by lower private sector mortgages
- Public Transit Funding to cities boosted
- Modest improvements for Aboriginal communities
ESPC Documents/PUBLICATIONS/A.06.B FACT SHEETS/fACT_sheet_Federal_Budget_2015.pdf
